Klaus Hinrich Stahmer
Klaus Hinrich Stahmer is a German composer and musicologist, born in 1941 in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland). He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg from 1969 to 2004, becoming professor in 1977, and founded the Tage der Neuen Musik festival in Würzburg. Much of his later work is written for East Asian and Arabic instruments, often alongside Western ones. Stahmer studied at Dartington College of Arts in England and in Hamburg and Kiel. He was president of the German section of the ISCM more than once.
Prima Vista (LP)
Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.
The Drum Speaks
Poems by South African poet Sandile Dikeni, recited from memory in Johannesburg in 2005, alternating with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer's works for flutes, piano, percussion, African drums and two pianos, recorded in Würzburg and Münster in 2004-2005.
Silence Is the Only Music
Six works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer for East Asian and Western instruments (sheng, guzheng, koto, shakuhachi, kayagum, changgu, accordion, flutes, cello), with Wu Wei, Xu Fengxia, Makiko Goto, Stefan Hussong and others; recorded 2000-2007.